Children and Parenting Support

Parenting can be many things; there can be big ups and downs, and we get it! We focus on providing holistic support to parents and children in an integrated and realistic manner. We're here to help your family improve communication patterns, understand relational dynamics and build skills together.

Why get Children and Parenting Support?

Parents and caregivers often seek therapy to support their children emotionally, socially, and behaviorally. Working with children inherently involves collaboration with their caregivers and families to ensure sustainable therapeutic progress.

Counselling for children and their families offers numerous advantages. It aids parents and children in acquiring new skills improving family communication, fostering emotional regulation, and promoting positive neurological changes in a secure, expressive, and contained environment.

How can Children and Parenting Support help me?

Working together to foster a healthier, happier family unit.

Our development journey begins even before birth and is influenced by our initial interactions with our caregivers. Being an understanding and insightful parent starts with comprehending your own attachment to your caregivers and its impact throughout various life stages. Your relationship with your child and your responses to them profoundly affect their emotional regulation and behaviour.

Our team of therapists employs a relational, person-centred approach to parenting, emphasising the cultivation of healthy attachments, empathy, and the enhancement of emotional expression and regulation within the family. We view you as a 'co-therapist' in supporting your child. Collaborating with parents is a valuable way to instil a sense of safety, self-compassion, and self-esteem in our children. We believe that it's not just about 'correcting' a child's behaviour but establishing a strong 'connection.' A child's internal sense of security, shaped by their primary relationships, has the most significant impact on their behaviour and interactions with the world.

Are you tired of being frustrated as a parent?

There are times when we just need a little help working with our kids and improving communication. When we aren’t working well as a family unit, tensions and frustrations can run high.

Therapywell stands out as one of Brisbane's few private allied health practices that offers fully equipped play therapy rooms designed to effectively engage children and young people in therapy. Our therapy team has extensive training and experience in working with children and families, utilising talk-based and expressive therapeutic techniques.

Get in touch to see how we can help your family to work for the better for everyone.

Who is Children and Parenting Support for?

Therapywell provides support to children, parents, and families dealing with various concerns, including:

  • Behavioural and learning challenges

  • School disengagement/anxiety

  • Concentration issues

  • Excessive technology use difficulties

  • Social skills and bullying concerns

  • Sleep problems

  • Symptoms of anxiety or depression

  • Trauma

  • Child abuse

  • Bedwetting and soiling

  • Family separation

  • Anger and aggression

  • Sexualised behaviour

  • Protective Behaviours

  • Adjustment and coping with separation

  • Attachment and relationship difficulties

  • Parental concerns and difficulties

  • Sensory disorders

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Oppositional Defiance Disorder

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Meet your Therapists

We are excited to introduce ourselves and put faces to names. Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to speak to any of us about therapy or referrals.

Hello, I’m Brooke, a senior psychotherapist and Mental Health Social Worker. With many years experience providing therapy, I focus on trauma and attachment, child and youth mental health, perinatal mental health, and family therapy. I also offer Equine Facilitated Therapy as a unique approach to healing. I am here to support you on your path to holistic well-being.

Meet Brooke Shakspeare, Mental Health Social Worker and Senior Psychotherapist

Hi, I’m Rebecca. I’m an Occupational Therapist of 20 years and a Mum of two. I love working with children, youth, and families with complex needs to help increase their understanding of themselves and others.

Meet Rebecca Clerehan, Occupational Therapist

Hi, I’m Kym. I’m an experienced Speech Pathologist with extensive experience working with language and learning difficulties, particularly in Mental Health and the more specialist areas of trauma and forensic mental health.

Meet Kym Robinson, Speech Pathologist

Hi, I'm Jack, a provisional psychologist. I help children, adolescents, and young adults who have neurodiverse and mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, and performance-based difficulties such as motivation, goal-setting, and achieving outcomes.

Meet Jack Gorman, Provisional Psychologist

Hi! I’m Sabrina, and I’m a Clinical Psychologist. I work with people of all ages with various needs, offering my skills in Mental Health and sharing my interests in attachment, developing Self and Personality, psychological assessments, and relationships across their lifespan.

Meet Sabrina Chan, Clinical Psychologist

Hi, I’m Ebony. I am a Speech Pathologist who works with children, adolescents, young adults (including neurodiverse individuals) and their families to support their confidence and ability to communicate their wants, needs, thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

Meet Ebony Picot, Speech Pathologist

Hi I’m Clare. I have worked as an Occupational Therapist for over 20 years and am a mum to 3 school aged children. My career has spanned a broad range of settings including disability, rehabilitation, community settings and acute care.

Meet Clare Redman, Occupational Therapist

Frequently Asked Questions about Children and Parenting Support

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  • Upon completing a parent intake session with one of our therapists, we will work with you and your child to provide a safe space through expressive and dyadic therapeutic interventions to address the concerns you share and acquire effective emotional regulation strategies and tools. We closely collaborate with you as a parent, providing feedback on your child's progress in therapy and teaching you strategies learned during sessions for application in both home and school environments.

Are you ready to feel seen, heard and supported?

We’re here to hold hope when you can’t hold it yourself. 

Not sure which therapy is right for you? Our team is here to support you, from identifying what support you need to getting your appointments organised.

 

Our clinic is conveniently located in Auchenflower

Can’t make it into the clinic?

We’ve got you covered with telehealth support. Want to meet somewhere else more comfortable? We’re more than happy to meet you there too!

37 Bangalla St.,
Auchenflower 4066

0475 041 910

info@therapywell.com.au